Islamic Centrist Party

The Islamic Centrist Party, also known as the Muslim Center Party, is a moderate Islamist political party in Jordan that was founded in December 2001. The party sought to promote political, economic, educational, and social reforms on the basis of Islamic sharia law, and it targeted members of the Islamic movement. The party had no links to the Muslim Brotherhood, however, and it criticized groups that attacked pluralism and promoted violence. The party was more moderate than the Islamic Action Front, and it advocated the strengthening of democracy, pluralism, the separation of powers, freedom of the press, an increased political role for women in the country, and the creation of a Palestinian state. In 2017, the party held 5/130 Chamber of Deputies seats.